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IPL
2010
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New common ancestor problems in trees and directed acyclic graphs
We derive a new generalization of lowest common ancestors (LCAs) in dags, called the lowest single common ancestor (LSCA). We show how to preprocess a static dag in linear time su...
Johannes Fischer, Daniel H. Huson
EMNLP
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Function-Based Question Classification for General QA
In contrast with the booming increase of internet data, state-of-art QA (question answering) systems, otherwise, concerned data from specific domains or resources such as search e...
Fan Bu, Xingwei Zhu, Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu
EMNLP
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Learning the Relative Usefulness of Questions in Community QA
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Ranking community answers via analogical reasoning
Due to the lexical gap between questions and answers, automatically detecting right answers becomes very challenging for community question-answering sites. In this paper, we prop...
Xudong Tu, Xin-Jing Wang, Dan Feng, Lei Zhang
UAI
2003
15 years 2 months ago
Layerwidth: Analysis of a New Metric for Directed Acyclic Graphs
We analyze a new property of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), called layerwidth, arising from a class of DAGs proposed by Eiter and Lukasiewicz. This class of DAGs permits certain ...
Mark Hopkins